1980 Aesop's Fables

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition of this collection, with original black-and-white drawings first published in 1899 put into colour by Martina Selway. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, a colour title illustration, and thirty-three colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of seventy-five of the fables attributed to Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storyteller noted for his tales characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Many of the tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Each volume contains two of these classic tales. Illustrated by Percy James Billinghurst, a British book illustrator and designer of book-plates who specialised in animal drawings for children. Put into colour by Martina Selway, an English author and illustrator who has worked for the BBC making children's television.